Man Kills TV Host Over In Apparent 'Jealous Rage,' Gregory Rodriguez, Host Of 'A Rifleman's Journal' On Sportsman Channel Gunned Down By Jealous Husband

A TV personality was killed by a man who police said, was jealous  the man's visit of his wife.

The Associated Press reported that a northern Montana man killed Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, the host of the Sportsman Channel show, "A Rifleman's Journal."

Wayne Bengston, 41, killed Rodriguez, then beat his own wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial told the AP.

"It's pretty much an open-and-closed case. Homicide and suicide," Dial said.

Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house in when her husband showed up Thursday at about 10:30 p.m.

"I think it was a jealous husband, but this is all conjecture," Dial said who believed the relationship between Bengxton's wife and Rodriguez was not romantic.

The Flathead County sheriff deputies found Bengston's truck parked outside his home, the AP reported. He was found dead by a gunshot wound.

"A Rifleman's Journal" tracks Rodriguez's hunting travels to exotic locations, according to a Sportsman Channel description. It also says that he was a mortgage banker before founding Global Adventure Outfitters and has hunted in 21 countries.

The Global Adventure Outfitter's website said that Bengston  was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game, the AP reported. 

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